This highly acclaimed text provides a comprehensive framework for planning, guiding, and evaluating learning activities for undergraduate and graduate nursing students in a wide variety of clinical settings.

The fifth edition updates this unequalled source of essential information for all faculty members—full time, part time, adjunct, and preceptors—responsible for clinical teaching. It encompasses current trends in health care and nursing education with expanded content on ways to maximize the clinical learning experiences of nursing students, use new technologies in clinical teaching, teach and evaluate student performance, and address ethical and legal issues in clinical teaching.

New content covers topics such as establishing and using dedicated education units, integrating simulation with clinical education, using new technologies for clinical learning, teaching and evaluating performance in distance education, promoting interprofessional education in clinical settings, integrating Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) in clinical courses, using standardized patients, and developing partnerships with clinical sites. Special features include guidelines for developing clinical sites, planning learning activities and assignments, observing and evaluating students in clinical practice, and using preceptors. With an arsenal of practical and creative tools to help both experienced and novice nurse educators, the text is also a valuable resource for individuals preparing to take the Certified Nurse Educator exam.

New to the Fifth Edition:

Updated with current trends in health care and nursing education

New chapter on interprofessional education and clinical teaching from a noted expert

Expanded content on maximizing the clinical learning experiences of nursing students

Clinical teaching and evaluating students at a distance

Use of social media and new technologies for clinical teaching

Ethical and legal issues in clinical teaching

New content on using dedicated education units

Developing partnerships with clinical staff and sites

Challenges of student access to electronic health records and electronic documentation of care

Strategies to promote student learning about QSEN

Use of simulations and integration of simulation with clinical education

Latest revisions of the CNE test plan

Recommendations for service learning and international clinical learning sites

Key Features:

Delivers a scholarly, in-depth examination of current trends and issues in clinical education

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